Good taste won today as Topps scrapped plans of having a Bernie Madoff card in the upcoming 2009 Allen & Ginter set.The email reads:
From: Topps
Madoff Card Removed From Allen and Ginter
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 7:33 PM
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Subject: Madoff Card Removed From Allen and GinterTopps announces that it is removing Bernie Madoff from its "World's Biggest Hoaxes, Hoodwinks and Bamboozles" insert from 2009 Allen & Ginter Baseball to comply with a request made by Major League Baseball. The card will be replaced with a subject to be named later.
Check out Wax Heaven's report on Allen & Ginter '09 for more information on the set.
7 comments:
Well, that's good to hear. Although I won't get the chance to build a bonfire in my front yard with all my Madoff doubles.
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Duh
That's a silly subset. Why would you want to do remember something like that?
It also makes that "World's Biggest Hoaxes, Hoodwinks and Bamboozles" insert set pretty much meaningless. I was never a fan of the idea, but I also can't really figure out who really wants a card with Charles Fonzarelli or Arthur Ponzi or whatever on it. I also am not excited by the idea of a card with an Enron sculpture.
It is good to see that Topps saw (even if they were told) that someone like Madoff in a card set comes too close being mis-interpreted as celebrating the man, rather than merely commemorating his downfall.
Yeah, but a few will still "accidentally" sneak into packs and become the next big secondary market bank breaker.
No doubt about that!
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